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Where the Wild Things Are: Let the Wild Rumpus Start by Maurice Sendak

On May 9, 2012, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, by Editor

Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.

The Hand That First Held Mine: First-Time Parents’ Sense of the Earth Tilting by Maggie O’Farrell

On May 8, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

The Hand That First Held Mine is a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. Like her acclaimed The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, it is a “breathtaking, heart-breaking creation.

The Family Corleone: A Prequel to Mario Puzo’s Godfather by Ed Falco

On May 8, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end.

Calling Invisible Women: A Funny Novel Describing the Social Status of Middle-Aged Women by Jeanne Ray

On May 7, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she’s only really missed when dinner isn’t on the table on time. Then Clover wakes up one morning to discover she’s invisible–truly invisible.

Miss Fuller: A Novel About the Adventurous, Fantastic, Revolutionary Life of Margaret Fuller by April Bernard

On May 6, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

It is 1850. Margaret Fuller–feminist, journalist, orator, and “the most famous woman in America”–is returning from Europe where she covered the Italian revolution for The New York Tribune. She is bringing home with her an Italian husband, the Count Ossoli, and their two-year-old son. But this is not the gala return of a beloved American heroine. This is a furtive, impoverished return under a cloud of suspicion and controversy.

The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.: A Historical Novel of Love and War by Carole DeSanti

On May 5, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

Love and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young woman’s coming of age during and after France’s Second Empire (1860–1871), an era that was absinthe-soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and transformed by cataclysmic social upheaval.

Derby Day: A Victorian Novel by D. J. Taylor

On May 5, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and White chapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day.

Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch: A Paranormal Mystery by Nancy Atherton

On May 4, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Nancy Atherton’s seventeenth cozy mystery featuring the beloved Aunt Dimity-the original paranormal detective. Returning to the charming world of Finch, Nancy Atherton’s latest novel is sure to delight faithful Aunt Dimity readers, Anglophiles, and cozy mystery fans.

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain

On May 2, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a devastating portrait of our time, a searing and powerful novel that cements Ben Fountain’s reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Home: A Deceptively Rich and Cumulatively Powerful Novel by Toni Morrison

On May 2, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.

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